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HIST 1100: U.S. History to 1865 Document Analysis #2 – 5 Documents Concerning Sovereignty & Land Rights • Worksheet Due by Week 11 Discussion Section [ November 3 ] • Essay Due November 12, 11:59pm General Guidelines You will write a 4-page paper analyzing five related historical documents. Your analysis will examine not only each document individually, but will also draw connections across the five primary sources. You will also be expected to explain the historical context of these documents, drawing on course readings and lectures. This essay will account for 15% of your final grade. The Document Analysis #1 Essay must be submitted in Times New Roman size 12 font, double-spaced, with 1-inch page margins. It is to be submitted to Canvas. Students found plagiarizing outside sources will receive a 0 on the assignment and will be reported to the Office for Academic Integrity. Specific Guidelines For this assignment, I want you to consider 5 documents relative to the relationship between the Cherokee Nation (and/or Cherokee peoples) and the United States. These documents also consider the interrelated question of Cherokee legal and territorial rights. Each of these documents is a window into a key nineteenth-century moment: one is from 1803, another from 1823, one from 1830, another from 1831, and the last from 1838. In each of these documents, the author(s) made a case for the status of the Cherokee nation and its territorial rights. In other words, all of these documents reveal a perspective on Cherokee sovereignty. The arguments that these authors offered are, unsurprisingly, not all the same. Some argued that the Cherokees were a separate, independent, self-governing nation. Others argued that Cherokee peoples lived within the bounds of the United States and were thus subject to its laws. Still more lay somewhere in between. In the first document analysis, you considered 5 perspectives on one event in order to identify the causes of a colonial war. In doing so, you took on one task of a historian: explaining the underlying causes of an event. For Document Analysis #2, your task is different. Historians also study change over time . In this case, I want you to see how the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. government changed over the first few decades of the Nineteenth Century. You will also consider how perspectives on Cherokee sovereignty and land rights changed over this time period.

Your job is to take these five documents and to assemble an account of this change over time : • Identify the authors, their biases, and their social/political/cultural contexts. • Identify the author or authors’ argument as to Cherokee sovereignty and territorial rights. Also explain how these various arguments about Cherokee nationhood related to one another, contradicted one another, and/or built upon one another. Make sure to consider these in chronological order. • Given the perspectives and biases that shaped each document, explain why each author(s) offered his/her/their specific account of Cherokee nationhood and territorial rights. • After parsing these documents and their contexts, offer your account as to how these ideas about Cherokee nationhood and sovereignty changed over time. How did understandings of Cherokee independence and nationhood change from the 1803 to 1838? How did the ways that American officials viewed or addressed Cherokee sovereignty change? How did Cherokee understandings of Cherokee sovereignty and/or land rights shift? (Or did they?) • Finally, I want you to put on your historian hat to answer the underlying question(s). Why did US-Cherokee relations change so dramatically? Why did understandings and legal recognition of Cherokee sovereignty change over time? Why did the United States government turn its back on earlier understandings of Cherokee territorial rights and nationhood?

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